Collar-holder.



'No. 7 18,716. I PATENTED JAN. 20. 1903.

O.S.LUGAS.

COLLAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1902.

1T0 MODEL.

OSCAR S. LUCAS, OF PRINCETON, INDIANA.

COLLAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,716, dated January 20, 1903. Application filed June '7, 1902. Serial No. 110,680. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known-that I, OSCAR S. LUCAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Princeton, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Collar- Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved construction of collar or ribbon holder, particularly adapted for holding a womans collar or neck-ribbon to the neckband of the shirt-waist.

The object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efiicient device which can be quickly and easily attached to the neckband and which will securely hold the collar or ribbon to the said band without any accessory fasteners.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder attached to the neckband, the device being viewed from one side. Fig. 2 is a similar View viewed from the opposite side of the neckband. Fig. 3 is a face view of the fastenor complete. Fig. 4E is an edge view. Fig. 5 is a view showing the position the parts assume when attaching the device to the neckband, and Fig. 6 is a view showing the parts detached.

In constructing aholder in accordance with my invention I employ two elements, each constructed from a single piece of wire, the

member A being adapted to engage the collar or ribbon and neckband, while the member 13 is adapted to securely fasten the holding member A to the neckband and also hold its gripping or fastening parts in their proper positions.

I shall first describe the construction of the two parts and then the manner of assembling such parts, and referring specially to Fig. 6 it will be noted that in constructing the member A, I first bend the piece of wire centrally upon itself, as shown at A, thereby providing an essentially U-shaped grippingjaw. The wire is then coiled several times upon itself, as shown at A in order to provide pivotal bearings for certain portions of the other member, and after being so coiled therends of the wire are first bent slightly in toward each other, as shown at A and are then caused to diverge, and the extreme ends are pointed or barbed, as indicated at A, and between the coils A and the contact portion A the wire is constructed with outwardlyextending ears A In constructing the member B, I also employ a single piece of wire, which is bent centrally upon itself, as shown at B, providing an arch or bowed portion, and the portions of the wire are then bent horizontally toward each other, as indicated at B and after being carried inwardly a short distance the ends of the wires are bent down in parallel order, as shown at B the ends terminating in points 13.

The horizontal portions B rest in the coils A and turn freely therein, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 5. The laterally-projecting ears A interlock with the bowed portion B, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, thereby securely holding the two parts of the device securely locked. The inner face of the band A is also provided with barbs A.

In operation the diverging arms of the member A are pressed toward each other, so

as to disengage the ears from the bow portion 1 of the member B, and the points or prongs of said member B can then be projectedinto the neckband of the shirt-Waist. The members are then again brought back into the positions shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and it will be readily understood that the diverging arms of the member A, with the pointed ends A, will engage and hold any collar or ribbon placed around the neckband and broughtinto contact with the said pointed ends. All pinning and fastening is entirely avoided, audit is obvious that the collar or ribbon can be instantly attached or detached, and it will also be seen that the holder can be quickly and easily attached to or detached from the neckband.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A collar or ribbon holder comprising two members pivotally connected, one member having pointed ends and adapted to engage the neckband, the other member having pointed ends adapted to engage the collar or ribbon, and means for holding the members locked in their proper positions, substantially as specified.

2. A collar or ribbon holder comprising two members, each formed from a single piece of Wire, one member having pointed ends adapted to engage the collar or ribbon, the opposite end of said member having a barbed grippingjaw, the intermediate portion of said member providing pivotal bearings for the other member, said other member having pointed ends adapted to engage the neckband, the opposite end being adapted to interlock with the other member, substantially as described.

OSCAR S. LUCAS.

WVitnesses:

E. T. LUCAS, MAUDE OHERROLI. 

